Jackie: 1361 books

Useful, easy to implement techniques, behaviours, skills and tips for those wishing to speak confidently in public or at meetings, conferences and events. A book which will appeal to people who are less experienced at speaking in public, but which will enhance the speaking of those with more knowledge...

There are official announcements and unsettling rumors of ongoing layoffs swirling around in every, city, state, industry, profession and government principality. They are designed to rattle your psyche and give you a sense of uncertainly and helplessness. But fear not. A counter-insurgency of determined...

How can you bring about a more peaceful, just world? This little book offers simple ideas which anyone can carry out-- some comfortable, some more challenging. It’s both a supplement to Small Things Count!—Simple Ways to Live Christ’s Love Each Day and an introduction to the power each of us has to make a better world simply by living our lives.

Exploring how Margaret Atwood’s fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically reworks the crime fiction genre. Shead focuses on Surfacing, Bodily Harm, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake and selected short fiction,...

In Finding Success in the Horoscope, Jackie Slevin introduces her twelve-step technique of chart interpretation that focuses on identifying and enhancing an individual's potential for success. Using the Midheaven as her starting point, Slevin explains how the planets in aspect to the Midheaven describe...

Book of poetry. Many were written as songs and the tunes still bounce around in my head. Many were written as a way to express an emotion that I could never show, in this politically correct world. Some are just the fanciful ponderings of a young mind and others the wishful dreams of a lonely soul. Whatever...

Television is often accused of showing too much violence. However, it is rare that anyone stops to ask what this statement means. Violence on Television provides an objective analysis of the violence on television, how much there is and what form it takes. It presents findings from the largest ever...

Newbie or pro, never be at a loss for how to get paid more to play. Here's a snippet of what you'll get: Elements of Success: Stop fantasizing about a successful career and use this plan to get off your butt and hit your goals. Promotion: This chapter shares the truth about what club owners really...

From Lincoln-themed cocktails and waffle-parlors to high-tech museums and steamy romance novels, the image of Abraham Lincoln so permeates the national imagination that we now find him in the unlikeliest of places. In Lincoln, Inc., Jackie Hogan examines the uses (and abuses) of the sixteenth president...

America is in the midst of a genealogy boom. In the last thirty years the number of Americans who said they were “very interested” in family history jumped from 29% to 87%. Online genealogy sites like Ancestry.com went from being a small genealogical research website into a NASDAQ-listed corporation...

Traveling abroad, Sabrina’s grand adventure is about to change. Needing to go home and rectify the wrongs that are hovering ever constant around her, she finds herself thrust into a whole new set of truths she must confront. What if she had chosen differently? What if she had followed her parents’...

Become the young woman you were made to be while you wait for God’s best. You are beautiful, valuable, and completely unique from anyone else who has ever lived in history! If this is really true, why would we want to act like everyone else-especially the world? In Waiting for...

Timothy S. Graves, a good man. He is a business genius, not a neophyte, and he is determined to reach the top rung any way he can. A solid marriage, set financial future, all neatly wrapped up... or is it?Shirley doesn’t see it that way. She just might do something outrageous, something just...

In 1977, siblings Tina, Michelle, and Leon Hilton live with their mother, Catherine, in Detroit. Although times are tough, Catherine does the best she can with the support of her mother-and in spite of the abuse she receives from her boyfriend, Victor. When eleven-year-old Michelle is accidentally...